How to solve UnicodeDecodeError: ‘UTF-8’ codec can’t decode bytes

Anna Ikoki
2 min readOct 19, 2023

So, I just had this error on reading a csv file using python

decode UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 7250–7251: invalid continuation byte

I was opening file a .csv with:

with open('filapath/filename.ext') as file:
print(file.read())

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